Reading | DrWeb's Domain

By Yenny Sanchez, CNN, Updated 8:37 AM ET, Sun June 19, 2022

*The free books are available at any of the library’s 92 locations in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island.*

(CNN) New Yorkers of all ages can now treat their shelves to a new book.

The New York Public Library (NYPL) has announced that it will give away 500,000 books to city residents to keep as part of its “Summer at the Library Program.”

Its goal is to help kids, teens and adults build their home libraries, as well as keep youth productive through the summer break.

The books are available at any of the library’s 92 locations in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island. Some locations will even offer Spanish, Chinese, and large print titles.

“New York City students and families have been through so much over the last two years. It’s critical that, during this period of recovery and renewal, our ecosystem of learning do all it can to support and engage them,” Brian Bannon, NYPL’s Merryl and James Tisch director of branch libraries and education, said in a statement earlier this month.

“Public libraries are uniquely positioned to do this while students are out of the classroom over the summer months, providing quality, free programs to engage their minds while also getting them excited about books, reading, learning, and their communities.”

Source: The New York Public Library is giving away 500,000 books this summer – CNN

We have fallen out of love with good writing

By Mary Gaitskill, June 17, 2022

As a fiction writer who teaches, I often speak about what I love in fiction, what to me makes it powerful and engaging.

This is a version of a talk I have been giving for years to students and other interested parties; it is a talk I’ve become — what is the right word? — uncertain about in the last five years, not because I don’t believe what I’m saying or that I care about it less but because I’m not sure that people can find it meaningful anymore.

There are a number of reasons I feel this, most of which have to do with how we take in knowledge and information and how that has changed the nature of perception. I’m not saying anything new here: think iPhones and the constant staring there at, a skull-fracturing change which plainly has consequences beyond how people understand the reading and writing of fiction.

Source: Will literature survive? – UnHerd

all things library and life.. from a librarian

DrWeb's Domain

Tag Archives: Reading

The New York Public Library is giving away 500,000 books this summer – CNN

Like this:

Will literature survive? – UnHerd

We have fallen out of love with good writing

Like this:

all things library and life.. from a librarian

Share This:

Like this:

We have fallen out of love with good writing

Share This:

Like this:

all things library and life.. from a librarian